ESTIMATES COMMITTEE PROCEEDINGS – 17 JUNE 2010
Question on Notice 8.13
Mr CHAIRMAN: Would you mind repeating the question for Hansard?
Mr CHANDLER: Minister, can you advise if the old Catalina flying boat ramp at East Arm will be given
any protection or listed as a heritage site?
Mr CHAIRMAN: That is question No 8.13.
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Mr WOOD: Where is the Heritage Conservation Act?
Mr HAMPTON: Very good question, member for Nelson, you have been around for a long time
haven’t you? It has been around that I am aware of since 2002, that is the review of the Heritage
Conservation Act. There has been a lot of public consultation on that process. There was a draft bill
released for public comment in February this year, which closed on 19 March this year and as part of
that process forums were held in Darwin and Alice Springs. I am aiming to get this one out of the way
and table the bill for a new heritage act before the end of the year.
Mr WOOD: Thank you, minister. Since 1991 the heritage fund was $200 000, and a good friend of
mine sent me some figures. It is still $200 000, but if you do some calculations over that period of time
it probably should be $315 000. Why has the department maintained this figure, which is also in your
annual report, of $200 000 to provide assistance to private owners of heritage places year-in-year out
without increasing it by at least the CPI.
Mr HAMPTON: Another very good question, member for Nelson. I will certainly take that question on
board, I will have to take it on notice, but can I say that we have also …
Mr WOOD: Do you have to take it on notice because they are the facts, it is $200 000 per year?
Mr HAMPTON: I will have to take that on board and find out.
Mr CHAIRMAN: That is a question on notice?
Mr HAMPTON: Yes.
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Question on Notice No 8.14
Mr CHAIRMAN: Would you please repeat the question?
Mr WOOD: Minister, why has the government not, and I know you cannot claim for 1991, but I will put
it in, why has the government since 1991 not changed the amount of money provided for assistance
to private owners of heritage places?
Mr HAMPTON: I might just go back to the other one. In terms of this government’s commitment I think
I have read it out previously, member for Nelson, certainly in terms of government’s heritage 2010
initiatives we have provided …
Mr WOOD: I only asked about the act, minister.
Mr HAMPTON: We have provided $100 per annum for repairs of and maintenance, but in terms of
this current question
Mr WOOD: I have got it on notice, anyway.
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Mr CHAIRMAN: No 8.14.
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Mr WOOD: I have to ask the last question. I have been trying through the media, through some
departments, the foundations of a house on the corner of Lambrick Avenue and the new Johnston
Road has been damaged over the last week, I think, and I have not been able to get anyone to go out
and identify them. Does the department know whether they are of heritage value, and do they know
what they are, before they are destroyed by the new development in Johnston?
Mr DARCEY: Yes, we have had Heritage officers out there to look at the site some time ago.
Mr WOOD: They did not tell me.
Mr DARCEY: Our assessment is that they post date the World War II site at the 17½ Mile, although
they are close by. They are probably some type of squatter’s shack or …
Mr WOOD: With tiles on the floor?
Mr DARCEY: … and our staff assessed that it is not of any particular heritage value.
Mr WOOD: Even pre-World War II?
Mr DARCEY: No post World War II. Probably 1960s or 1970s.
Mr WOOD: Well that is after I was born so it is definitely not heritage then. That is my last question.
Mr CHAIRMAN: We are now at dinner. That concludes questions to Output 5.0 – Heritage, Output
5.1 – Heritage Conservation. We will after dinner be at Output Group 8.0 – Sport and Recreation,
Output 8.1 – Sports Development.
The committee suspended.
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OUTPUT GROUP 8.0 – SPORT AND RECREATION
Output 8.1 - Sports Development
Madam DEPUTY CHAIR: We now proceed to Output Group 8.0, Sport and Recreation, Output 8.1,
Sports Development. Are there any questions?
Mr BOHLIN: Minister, Output Group Sport and Recreation states: ‘Provision of sport and recreation
activities for the community, optimising performance opportunities for athletes, and managing sporting
fixtures’. So, minister, why do we see, if we go to the sports grants last year in the 2009-10 budget,
they were listed at $8.77m for 2008-09. They were then estimated to go up to last year’s output of
$8.83m for 2009-10. But if you look at this year’s Budget Paper No 3 for 2010-11, and you see the
2009-10 figure down to $8.32m, then you want the sports sector to believe you are actually increasing
the output to $8.44m for 2010-11. So minister, you better explain to the sporting community your
sleight of hand on the budget over the past two years. Where has that money gone?
Mr HAMPTON: I am happy to clear that up. In terms of those grants, what we did was, there was a
carry forward of external funding from 2008-09 into 2009-10 of $232 000. Then, obviously, there are
the external grants as well, the Australian Sports Commission Grant funding in 2009-10 of $617 000,
and that is what has seemed, or perhaps had the effect of what you have pointed out there in terms of
the variance of the budgets - basically then, the external funding.
Mr BOHLIN: And that is it? And you could not see those changes pending?
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